How to find the files recursively having a text pattern excluding some directories and files [duplicate]

Question

How to find the files recursively having a text pattern excluding some directories and files?

Example:- 
$ ls
bower.json      bower_components    configure       results         unit-tests

so I need to find "searchText" recursively in all directories excluding bower.json and results

Answer 1

Short grep solution:

grep -r --exclude="bower.json" --exclude-dir="results" "searchText"